Splice-bar.



' v S.E.,BRADY.

. SPLICE BAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1913.

. 1,088,058. Patented Feb. 24. 1914,

l which drawing:

"UNITED srAT as rATENT OFFICE.

STEPBEN' E. BRADY, OF GBANZBY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO CHARLES A HINES AND LINCOLN HINES, 0F ANDERSOIL, MISSOURI.

SPLICE-B1535 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2 1-, 1914.

Application filed June 10, 191a Serial No. 772,822.

T 0 all 'who mit may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN E. BnADY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Granby, in the county of Newton and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Splice-Bars, of which the struction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the ap:.

pended claim.

'In the drawing there has been illustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the improvement reduced to practice, and in Figurel is a perspecti e view of a rail joint constructed in accordance with the present invention, Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view through the same,

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the splice bars or joint plates, and Fi (5 isa similar view of the co-acting splice bar or joint plate.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, R-R designate two railway rails, which are of the ordinary construction, and which have their webs adjacent their ends formed with the usual bolt openings.

The splice bars which form the joint of ,the ends of the rails are designated by the numerals 1 and 2 respectively, the bar 1 being adapted to be arranged upon the outer side of the rails, and the bar 2 adapted to be arranged upon the inner sides of the rails. The splice bai 1 comprises a member which is formed with an enlarged' central portion or body 3, the upper face of the body being inclined or curved from its upper edge to its lower longitudinal edge, and the said body has its underface provided with a lon- 'gitudinally extending bevel or channel at which is inclined to agree with the basev flanges of the rails upon which the same is adapted to rest, and. the body at the juncture of the channel is formed with a verti- I cally straight longitudinal ledge 01' wall 5 which is adapted to abut against the'oiiter longitudinal edges of the rails R--R. The upper portion of the body has its inner edge beveled, as at-fi, to agree with the, u'nderfaces adapted to engage.

. taining nuts.

of the heads of the rails with which'it is The inner face of the portion of the body which engages with the webs of the rails is formed with a plurality of sockets or depressions corresponding in number with the bolt openings in the webs of the rails, and adapted to be arranged to alii e with the said bolt openings when the spl ce bar 1 is arranged upon the rails. The ends of the splice bars are reduced extensions and 8, each of the said extensions being provided with an opening 9 and the said openings are adapted to re ist-er with the innermost bolt openings in t e webs of the rail. I V

The splice bar 2 is of a shape substantially similar to that of the splice bar 1, it being formed upon its lower face with the-inclined channel 10 which engages with the base flanges of the rail and with the projectin'g portion 11 which engages within the with a. rail guard 14. The body 'is formed with extensions 15, similar to the end. extensions upon the splice bar 1, and these extensions are formed with open'ings which are adapted to register with the openings in the extensions of the splice bar 1, and the registering openings are adapted to receive securing bolts which areprovided with re- The splice bar 2 is formed with a plurality of transversely arranged.

projecting fingers 16 which project through the bolt openingsin the webs of the'rails into the depressions in the opposite splice bar. i

From the above description, taken in con iicction with the accompanying drawing, the

simplicity of the device as well as the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be per? fectlv apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invent-ions appertain without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

The combination-witli two railshhaving abutting ends, o'f splice bars for the opposite sides of tliegailends,eachof said bars'incl uding an enlarged laterally extending body having inclined sides and provided with reduced extending ends, the inner portions of the bodies and extending ends of which are received Within the fishing spaces of the rails, one of said enlarged bodies being integrally formedwith spaced fingers which pass through bolt openlngs in'the webs of the rails and are'received Within depressions provided in the inner face of the second splice member, the longitudinally extending ends of the splice members having lateral openings which register with openings in (1-. A. HINEs,

VILLIAM E. FORBES. 

